A sense of calm appeared to settle over the stock market today – one day after the Dow’s worst of the year. The Dow was up nearly 90 points near the close Friday.
Gold prices, pushed below $1,300 an ounce Thursday, its lowest level in some two-and-a-half years, also bounced back Friday.
(Reuters) – When metals warehouses in top consumer China are so full that workers start stockpiling iron ore in granaries and copper in car parks,…
BHP Chairman Says Commodity Price Tailwind To Ease FurtherFox BusinessSYDNEY – The tailwind of high commodity prices, which have helped the mining sector report record growth in recent years, is moderating and is expected to ease further, the chairma…
Baltic dry index fell 10.9% last week and has reaching all-time low; Capesize Index was down 2.0%; Panamax Index fell 15.0%; Supramax Index was down 12.5%; Handysize Index fell 10.3%.
Constant State and Central Bank intervention and manipulation is not the foundation of a free, transparent market–it is perception management in service of Elite control and looting.
You can fool Mother Nature for awhile, but not over the long-te…
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Commodity Prices Headed for a Huge Drop
By Erik Swarts Sep 30, 2011 2:40 pm
We may be at the back end of a historic super cycle in commodities, and the decline will help businesses and consumers while devastating emerging eco…
Aug 12, 2011
2008 is here again
By Scott B MacDonald
NEW YORK – No one can blame investors for feeling like 2008 is back. After all, there has been a return to acute market volatility, financial and industrial stocks have been beaten up, and the VI…
Vampire Squid? Big Government? Crisis report splits
On Monday January 24, 2011, 5:29 pm EST
By Kevin Drawbaugh and Dave Clarke
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three competing, politically charged tales of the financial crisis will emerge this week when a U.S….
Banks keep commods risk low after two big quarters
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Yet, investment banks such as Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS – News), Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS – News) and JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM – News) are not willing to stake as much money on raw …
Same pattern as in previous silver manipulations, apparently SOP for the commodity markets.
Founder Of Brook Hunt Sees Copper Peaking In Near-Term, Plunging To “Forgotten Levels” Of $1,500 By 2016
The large-scale intrusion of the financial sector, w…
